Important Rocket Terms

aerodynamic forces
direct staging
drag
escape velocity
external fuel tank
gimbal or gimballed thrusters
gravity
guidance system
indirect staging
ion propulsion
launch vehicle
lift
multi-stage rocket
orbital velocity
oxidizer
parallel stages
payload
propellant
solid rocket booster (SRB)
stacked stages
thrust
vanes
vernier thrusters
weather cocking
 

Famous Rocket Inventors

Hermann Oberth
Konstantin Tsilovkovski
Pedro Paulet
Robert Goddard
Wernher Von Braun
 

Famous Rockets

aeolipile (made by Hero of Alexander)
Ares Rockets
Atlas Rockets
Chinese “fire-arrows”
Congreve Rockets
Delta II and Delta IV Rockets
Saturn V Rocket
Soyuz Rockets
STS (The Shuttle)
V-2 Rocket
wooden pigeon (made by Archytas)
 

US Space Programs

Mercury Program
Gemini Program
Apollo Program
Space Shuttle Program
The International Space Station (ISS)
Constellation Program
 

Famous Astronauts

Alan Shepherd
Buzz Aldrin
Christa McAulliffe
Ed White
Gene Kranz
Gus Grissom
Ham the Astrochimp
James Lovell
John Glenn
Laika the Russian Space Dog
Neil Armstrong
Sally Ride
Yuri Gagorin
Valentina Tereshkova
 

Space Agencies

OOSA (The United Nations)
NASA (US)
ESA (Europe)
JAXA (Japan)
CSA (Canada)
RSA/RKA (Russia)
CNSA (China)
IRSO (India)
 

Aerospace Companies

Boeing
Lockheed Martin
Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)
Thiokol ATK
EADS
 


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